FFS you couldn't make it up... at the very same time that Rishi Sunak is looking to restrict eligibility for benefits for the disabled & long-term sick as an 'incentive' to get them 'back to work'.... the Work & Health Programme, that actually does that very thing has lost funding & will close in the next six months!
So with one hand he takes away financial support & tells people to do more to get into work, and then with other removes services that will help them do exactly that.
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It's all about the headlines.
There's no planning and barely any thought in the lumbering zombie #Tory government.
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They won't have time to do anything substantial to implement it, it's just an utterance to help fill the vacuum of actual policy.
On the other hand, I can imagine Rachel Reeves making a note in her daybook about what a good idea this is.
@ChrisMayLA6 Nazi propaganda always led with the argument that whoever the victims were, they were at least lazy, a drag on society and at worst a corrupting, malicious influence
imo this is just meritocracy brought to its extreme, if you're 'useless', not even dangerous or destructive on purpose (by whatever metric society arbitrarily chooses), society will let you die
the knife's edge can go further to 'not useful enough'
Getting people "back to work" is a favorite from any conservative politician. They just don't understand why people are incapable of making money and advancing themselves.
I also don't understand the logic of forcing chronically ill people into the public more often to make others sick.
Just incompetent, awful, and wrong-headed.
@ChrisMayLA6 I suspect they may be closing it because it doesn't work very well, so is not cost effective in their terms.
But that would support the idea that forcing people off benefits won't work either.
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-defends-first-work-and-health-programme-job-figures/
Performative cruelty
@ChrisMayLA6 Here in Canada the conservative leader is drooling and rubbing his hands together at the prospect of getting his hands on our social safety nets.
I hope we learn from the mistakes of others.
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